Recent content by sar2012

The wires are in the terminals and box screwed in wall. All I know is that I couldn’t get both sets of wires in the terminals without twisting them and I took the terminal screws off and I touched the earth wire from the cooker to the earthing plate at the back of the socket box. It looks...

Thanks for the congrats... Test 1 – 3 results with wires out of socket box as in picture above. It’s not tripping on any of the tests. Test 1 – 3 results with wires in socket (not really knowing if they stayed in the terminals). Not tripping here either. I put the mcb, cooker wall...

When trying to connect the wires to the terminals they wouldn’t fit, i.e. the black one kept coming out of the terminal and the red one would not fit in at all so the only way to fit them in was to twist the wires’ threads together – Then they still were not in all the way but were touching the...

I tried the cooker with the wiring left exposed as in the picture above and it works without tripping. I’m going to do the 3 tests before fastening it up and then again after I fasten it all up and see when it trips.

Here’s some history just in case but I don’t think it applies now: The electric has been tripping intermittently for a few years and during this time (2004) my housing assoc. had an electrician out about it: · The RCD Tester showed low voltage coming through my cables: The P.S.C. test showed...

It’s got worse. It started tripping without the computer on whenever I turned the cooker on and now it is even tripped without turning the cooker on, just when I just turned the cooker switch on the wall socket on. I don’t know if it is wired up properly either (see above). Here are the...

:lol: I have wired my electric cooker to the appropriate cooker socket. There are 6 wires - 2 black, 2 red and 2 yellow/green. The black wire it connected to the black wire in the wall in the cooker socket, the red to the red and the yellow/green to the yellow/green. Problem is that when I...